Health officials recently reported the first U.S. cases of Zika traced to local mosquitoes, in Miami, and the virus is spreading rapidly in Puerto Rico. Given the link between Zika and microcephaly in some babies born to infected mothers, it renewed questions about how Americans...
In early 2014, months before the police shooting of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri, and shortly after the Black Lives Matter movement began, the Police Training Institute at the University of Illinois, with help from professors in LAS, began offering police recruits classes...
Millions will be sampling Brazilian culture for the first time, in person or through the media, during the Rio de Janeiro Olympics. Part of the soundtrack will be samba. Born in Rio, it was once the country’s undisputed national music and is still a prominent part of popular culture....
University of Illinois history professor Harry Liebersohn has been chosen to receive the prestigious Humboldt Research Award honoring a career of research achievements.The Humboldt award is presented by the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation in Bonn,...
Black gay men were largely missing in both black and gay history, so Kevin Mumford, who specializes in both, set out to tell their story.
“I wanted to reclaim a history that had been washed over, that had been overlooked,” said Mumford, a University of Illinois...
When you think of a laboratory, you may think of test tubes, chemistry or some other kind of science. You might also think of teamwork, solving problems and testing solutions. Could there be such a lab for history?Some faculty and students at Illinois are working on one. It’s called...
Most historical accounts describe the Illinois Indians of the late 1600s as a weak and beleaguered people, shattered by war. Their Grand Village of the Kaskaskia, near present-day Starved Rock State Park, 80 miles southwest of Chicago, was depicted as little more than a refugee center, propped up...
Leslie Reagan is a well-respected professor of history who joined Illinois faculty in 1992. But this past Oct. 16, she was Leah Schwartz, an outspoken, disaffected factory worker from the year 1913 who makes button holes all day.She was a lively...
The British Empire was not the model of peace and stability, the “Pax Britannica,” as it’s often portrayed. The common narrative of the empire’s rise and fall is misleading, says a University of Illinois history professor.
Dissent...
Baseball was still a relatively young sport when roughly 20,000 people packed the small Oklahoma City stadium that was designed to hold less than 10,000. With the stands filled, a multitude lined the outfield foul lines, leading one reporter to wisecrack that “any guy ought to be able to pitch with...